The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
May 1, 2009
Mary S. Koithan
Mind-body therapies are among the most widely recommended and used form of complementary and alternative medicine. Nursing has long championed these interventions, citing the healing potential of the mind on physiological systems. Professional beliefs about the inherent holism of the human being are now supported by advances in science; there is basic bench research that now suggests an...
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
May 1, 2009
Janis Leigh, Clayton Neighbors
This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between mindfulness and alcohol consumption among college students, with enhancement and coping motives evaluated as potential mediators. Differences between men and women in drinking and mindfulness (mind/body awareness specifically) were also considered. Undergraduate students (n = 212, 51% male) completed a survey that included measures...
Aging & Mental Health
May 2009
Kate Splevins, Alistair M. S. Smith, Jane Simpson
The study aimed (1) to investigate changes in older adults' emotional wellbeing (specifically depression, anxiety and stress levels) and mindful ability following a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) course; (2) to explore correlations between mindfulness (measured as an overall ability and as individual components; observe, describe, act with awareness and accept without judgement) and...
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
May 1, 2009
Richard Shusterman
55 citations
Embodiment is a universal feature of human life, and so is body consciousness. Body consciousness, as I understand it, is not merely the consciousness that a mind may have of the body as an object, but includes the embodied consciousness that a living, sentient body directs at the world and also experiences in itself (and through which it indeed can experience itself as both subject and...
Cognitive Processing
May 1, 2009
Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Carlos F H Neves
10 citations
To build a true conscious robot requires that a robot's "brain" be capable of supporting the phenomenal consciousness as human's brain enjoys. Operational Architectonics framework through exploration of the temporal structure of information flow and inter-area interactions within the network of functional neuronal populations [by examining topographic sharp transition processes in the scalp...
Psychological Science
April 28, 2009
Michael A. Sayette, Erik D. Reichle, Jonathan W. Schooler
135 citations
Alcohol consumption alters consciousness in ways that make drinking both alluring and hazardous. Recent advances in the study of consciousness using a mind-wandering paradigm permit a rigorous examination of the effects of alcohol on experiential consciousness and metaconsciousness. Fifty-four male social drinkers consumed alcohol (0.82 g/kg) or a placebo beverage and then performed a...
Educational Media Reviews Online
April 27, 2009
Fran Mentch
Distributed by National Film Board of Canada, 1123 Broadway, Suite 307, New York, NY 10010; 800-542-2164Produced by Kent MartinDirected by Connie Littlefield2002, DVD, color, 57 min. If you need a film demonstrating that science and medicine are culture bound, this is it. As a member of the baby-boom generation I sat down to watch this film thinking, what can I learn about LSD that I don’t...
Buddhist Philosophy
April 21, 2009
Matthew T Kapstein
Abstract: Despite current uncertainties among scholars concerning the “original doctrines” of Buddhism, some of the most ancient among the discourses attributed to the Buddha unmistakably call into question the notion that each one of us possesses a unique and persisting self, or ātman in Sanskrit. In developing this idea, the early Buddhist thinkers who composed the several versions of the...
Buddhist Philosophy
April 21, 2009
Peter Harvey
2 citations
Abstract Of the following three selections, the first two, the Anatta-lakkha a Sutta and a part of the Mahānidā na Sutta, are from the Theravādin Pali canonical collection of discourses attributed to the Buddha. The third is from a postcanonical Pali text, the Milindapañha. While they all contain points and arguments of philosophical relevance, they are not as such systematic philosophical...
Buddhist Philosophy
April 21, 2009
Jin Y Park
Abstract Pojo Chinul (1158–1210) is one of the most influential figures in Korean Zen Buddhism. Chinul’s Zen is characterized by huatou (or “a critical phrase”) meditation, a version of the encounter dialogue (Chin. gong’an; Kor. kongan; Jap. kō an) method. At the basis of Chinul’s huatou meditation, also known as Kanhua Zen, lies his philosophy of mind. By tracing Chinul’s account of mind, one...